Bhagavad Gita 5.28यतेन्द्रियमनोबुद्धिर्मुनिर्मोक्षपरायणः।विगतेच्छाभयक्रोधो यः सदा मुक्त एव सः ॥
yatendriya-mano-buddhir munir mokṣa-parāyaṇaḥ
vigatecchā-bhaya-krodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Peace of the one who knows · 5.13–5.29 · Teaching
Translation
With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme goal, free from desire, fear, and anger, the sage is truly liberated forever.
Hindi translation
।।5.27 -- 5.28।। बाह्य पदार्थोंको बाहर ही छोड़कर और नेत्रोंकी दृष्टिको भौंहोंके बीचमें स्थित करके तथा नासिकामें विचरनेवाले प्राण और अपान वायुको सम करके जिसकी इन्द्रियाँ, मन और बुद्धि अपने वशमें हैं, जो मोक्ष-परायण है तथा जो इच्छा, भय और क्रोधसे सर्वथा रहित है, वह मुनि सदा मुक्त ही है।
Meaning
If one is free from desire, fear and anger he enjoys perfect peace of mind. When the senses, the mind and the intellect are subjugated, the sage does constant contemplation and,attains for ever to the absolute freedom or Moksha.The mind becomes restless when the modifications of deisre, fear and anger arise in it. When one becomes desireless, the mind moves towards the Self spontaneously liberation or Moksha becomes his highest goal.Muni is one who does Manana or reflection and contemplation.
After Swami Sivananda
Peace of the one who knows· 5.13–5.29→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 5.13Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests…
- 5.14Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with the fruits…
- 5.15The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by…
- 5.16But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun,…
- 5.17Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That as…
- 5.18Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow,…
- 5.19Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is…
- 5.20Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither…
- 5.21With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; with the…
- 5.22The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a beginning…
- 5.23He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of…
- 5.24He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi…
- 5.25The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their…
- 5.26Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from…
- 5.27Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, realizing the…
5.28With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme…
- 5.29He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the…
Word-by-word→
- eva
- certainly
- yata
- controlled
- bhaya
- fear
- sadā
- always
- saḥ
- he is
- yaḥ
- one who
- icchā
- wishes
- vigata
- discarded
- indriya
- senses
- manaḥ
- mind
- mokṣa
- liberation
- muniḥ
- the transcendentalist
- muktaḥ
- liberated
- buddhiḥ
- intelligence
- krodhaḥ
- anger
- parāyaṇaḥ
- being so destined
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